And the setup at
the actual event space was very impressive.
Not exact matches
He lists four distinct analyses of time in Western philosophy:» (I) time as a
space - like extended dimension, or as an
actual series; (2) time as recurrent periodic motion; (3) time as progressive maturity or age; and (4) time as a distention of the soul, awareness of the sequences of states and
events that make up our subjective experience» (WPP 65).
Besides the «similar size» of
actual occasions and quantum
events, there is yet another point to consider, one which makes the quantum
event perhaps the sole candidate for the
actual occasion, Only quantum
events have the characteristics that one expects of
actual occasions with respect to
space - time.
P. A. M. Dirac's conception of a
space - time «ocean» of quantum
events is easily interpreted as a plenum of Whiteheadian
actual occasions.
Where Whitehead and Santayana are strikingly similar is in holding that the spatio - temporal world is ultimately atomic or quantic so that what constitutes the world at any one moment, or a piece of history, is a system of facts,
events, natural moments, or
actual occasions, whose relations (or perhaps rather possibilities of relations) constitute
space and time (as opposed to their being as mere possibilities of relations) rather than are in them as containers (see ED 27).
It is precisely this coincidentia of the opposing realms of the sacred and the profane that makes possible Christianity's celebration of the Incarnation as an
actual and real
event, an
event that has occurred and does occur in concrete time and
space, and an
event effecting a real transformation of the world.
The Fall is an
actual and real
event; the world and human existence are judged to be actually and truly estranged from their original divine ground, and consequently the process of redemption must occur in the arena of concrete time and
space.
Space - time structure concerns relations between and sustained by the
actual occasions of the universe; it is not an
actual thing in which the real
events of the world occur.
For example, for the frequently used word «
events» (used in describing natural phenomena in
space - time coordinate systems) he substituted the term «
actual occasions,» which for him gave a more accurate (and richer) picture of «real» or «concrete» happenings in the natural world.11 In this regard, he avoided the use of such commonly employed metaphysical terms such as «sensation» and «perception» — derived from seventeenth and eighteenth philosophers such as Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Kant — since for him they had a narrow psychological rather than appropriate epistemological meanings.
Weeks before the
actual events, students learned about the mission, its science theme, and
space - related careers through classroom activities and videos developed by the Applied Physics Laboratory and Discovery Education.
Apollo 13 is heralded as one of the most accurate portrayals of an
actual space event.